4 bodies found in Cypress-area home

By Mike Glenn :
January 30, 2014
: Updated: January 31, 2014 10:17pm

Officers work the scene in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek in northwest Harris County, where sheriff's deputies said four dead people were found at a home on Thursday.

Photo By Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle

The discovery was made during a welfare check.

Photo By Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle

Officers work the scene in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek.

Photo By Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle

Officers work the scene in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek.

Photo By Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle

Officers work the scene in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek.

Photo By Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle

Rolf Nelson with the Harris county Sheriff's office gives the first press briefing about the investigation of four dead people found dead in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek in northwest Harris County where sheriff's deputies said four people were found dead at a home on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in Houston.

Four people were found dead Thursday night at a home in northwest Harris County, sheriff's deputies said.

They were discovered about 7:30 p.m. after deputies contacted by a family friend made a welfare check at a home in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek, authorities said.

Sheriff's deputies used yellow tape to cordon off the scene in the Cypress-area neighborhood that features wide streets and well-manicured lawns.

At the scene, Capt. Rolf Nelson, of the sheriff's homicide division, would not provide any details about the people inside the home — including how they died or where the bodies were discovered.

"It is believed to be a family. We haven't identified anyone inside," Nelson said.

The deputies were dispatched to the house at the urging of a "concerned friend of the family," Nelson said. "One of the adults had not come to work in a couple of days."

Nelson wouldn't say if there was evidence of forced entry or if a weapon was discovered.

"We're still in the very early stages of this investigation," Nelson said.

A neighbor who would identify himself only as "Ryan" said a husband and wife lived in the house with two grade-school-age sons. Ryan said his children sometimes played tag with the two boys.

"They're a real nice family. This is a complete shock to us," Ryan said. "We just talked to them a couple of days ago."

Ryan said he has never heard of the family having problems.

Chris Wiloth, who lives a few houses down from the home where the bodies were discovered, said he couldn't believe what was happening when he stepped outside and saw the patrol cars from the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

He said he didn't know what to think about a homicide investigation playing out so close to his own home.

"But as you well know, it could happen anywhere," Wiloth said.

He said he felt very sad for the people who lived at the home.

"I pray for the families involved in this and hope the neighborhood can get some closure," Wiloth said.